Churning, beating, or mixing apparatus



. J. 'A. WIDE.

CHURNING BEATING, 0R MIXING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.3I, 191.9-

Patentied Apr. 12, 1921.

WITNESS: v

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JOHN A. WILDE, OE INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

CHURNING, BEATING, OR MIXING APPARATUS.

Application filed March 31, 1919,

citizen of the United States, residing at ratus, of which the following is a specifica- Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana, have invented anew and useful Churning, Beating, or Mixing Appation, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to the letters andfigures of reference marked thereon.

This invention relates to apparatus that is designed to be used in the operations of making butter, beating eggs or other substances, or mixing various substances, the invention having reference more particularly to apparatus of the above-mentioned character that may comprise'a glass fruit jar as a part thereof.

An object of the inventlon is to provlde simple and inexpensive yet efiicient apparatus of the above-mentioned character which shall be suitable for domestic uses and be easily operated and cared for.

Another object is to provide a simple appliance that shall be adapted to be readlly connected to various sizes of fruit jars of well known type, especially in case the original vessel or container of the apparatus becomes damaged or destroyed, and which shall be durable and economical in use.

' With the above-mentioned and other objects in view, the invention consists in an' tion connected in a novel manner with the vessel; and, the invention consists also further in the parts and combinations and arrangements of parts as hereinafter particularly described and further defined in the accompanying claim.

Referring to the drawings,,Figure 1 is an elevation of the new apparatus as preferably constructed; Fig. 2 is a vertical central section showing correlated parts of the apparatus on an enlarged scale; Fig. 3 is a fragmentary horizontal sectional plan of correlated parts, as viewed from above the top of the vessel; Fig. 4c is a' sectional elevation of correlated parts of the mechanism; Fig. 5 is a plan of the preferred form of beater or dasher to operate in the vessel; Fig. 6 is a fragmentary sectional elevation of the operating crank of the apparatus; and, Fig. 7

is a top plan of the frame of the mechanism.

opening 22 therein in alinement with the Specification of Letters Patent. Patgntgd Apr, 12, 1921,

Serial No. 286,414.

Similar reference characters in the different figures of the drawings indicate corresponding elements or features of construc tion herein referred to.

In the preferredform of construction the apparatus includes a vessel which preferably I is composed of glass so that operations therein may be seen, the vessel preferably being shaped similarly to a well'known fruit jar, so as to permit inexpensive replacementof accidentally broken vessels, the vessel comprising a bottom 1, a side wall 2, a shoulder 3, and a screw-threaded neck 4., a rubber or other packing ring 5 usually being arranged upon the shoulder. The closure of the vessel is composed of a cap comprising a connecting ring or flange 6 screw-threaded to embrace the screw-threaded neck, and a diskshaped plate 7 connected to the ring or flange, the cap being adapted to constitute mechanism. The plate 7 has a-central guideopening 8 therein'to guide a reciprocatory rod. The frame of themechanism has a base which preferably comprises two base bars or plates 9 and 10, one preferably being longer than the other'andarranged in alinement upon the disk or plate 7 so as to have their inner ends joined together,as at 11 to permit them to be soldered together, and the bars com rising the frame base are se-. cured respectively by means of rivets 12 and 13 to the disk 7 The base has'a guide-opening 14: arranged in alinement with the guideopening 8. A standard 15 is integral with the outer end of the basebar 9 and a relatively short ortion 16 of anotherstandard is integral with the outer end of the bar 10 and has an outward extending handle portion 17 from which a vertical handle portion 18 extends, a short horizontal handle portion 19 extending from the portion 18 to the planeof the standard portion 16, a short standard portion 20 extending upward from the handle portion '19 to the height offthe standard 15, and a tie bar 21 is connected integrally with the top of the standards. The tie bar or frame top 2l has guideguide-opening 14:, and in the two guideopenings a reciprocatory rod 23 is vertically guided and provided on its lower end with a beater device 24 which may be variously constructed so as to operate in the vessel and agitate the contents thereofe The rod 110 a foundation for the'frame of the operating could be directly Operated by hand if de sired, either longitudinally or rotatively, or in both directions.

7 Preferably the rod is provided with power mechanism to forcibly move the rod longitudinally, and for such purpose the standard 15 is provided with a journal box 25 having a neck 26 rigidly secured in a suitable opening in the standard opposite to the handle portion 18, the journal box having a bore 27 in which a shaft 28 is rotatably mounted. The shaft has an integral crank arm 29 on its inner end which has a crank pin 30 thereon provided with a collar 31, and the outer end of the shaft has a crank arm 32 thereon extending from a collar 33 which is secured to the shaft adj areceives the rod 23 and is provided with a set-screw 41 which engages the rod, and permits the rod to be adjustably secured to the crosshead. The crosshead has a stud 42 on one side thereof which has a circumferential groove 43, thus being adapted to constitute an integral wrist-pin. A pitman 44 is composed of a wire rod and has an eye 45 on one end arranged in the groove 43 and an eye 46 on its opposite end receiving the crank pin 30, the eyes constituting connecting rod boxes.

Preferably the beating device. 24 is diskshaped and may be suitably composed of an aluminum plate, and it has a central hole 47 to receive the rod 23' on which the device is rigidly secured, the plate having four apertures 48, 49, '50, '51, thereon arranged about the central aperture, and they are preferably each longer than broad. As shown in Fig. 1 the adjustment of the rod 23 is such as to carry'the beater device 24 on its downward strokenearly to the bottom 1 of the vessel and on the upward stroke the device would be carried to the indicated po- 7 sition 52. In a relatively, deeper vessel the rod 23 could be lowered relatively to the In a shorter vessel than beater device shall be moved downward only to the indicated position 53 and up to the indicated position 54 near the shoulder of the vessel, or a rod could be readjusted so that the beater device could be moved upward into the neck of the vessel if desired, the device being of suitable dimensions to permit it to be removed through the neck when disassembling the machinery from the vessel.

In practical use the apparatus economically operates as a churn to produce butter from the well known substanceyor, when it is desired to beat or mix various sub stances, it will be understood that the substanceor composition is to be placed in the vessel and the beater device operated by the devices above described, and at such speed as may be necessary to obtain the best results. In some cases ice-cream'may be frozen in the vessel and, after unscrewing the cap from the vessel the bulk of the product may be drawn out upon the beater device. In operating, the handle portion of the frame is held, which is particularly advantageous when the operator sits and holds the vessel in her lap, while operating the crank shaft of the mechanism.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is- V In a churning, beating or mixing apparatus, the combination of a foundation plate having a central guide-opening, two base members rigidly secured upon the foundation plate, two standards rigid on said members respectively, one of said standards being straight, the remaining one of the standards having an outwardly extending off-set handle portion adjacent to the upper portion thereof, a tie-bar'connected tothe tops of said standards and having a guideopening therein, a rod movably arranged in said guide-opening and extending between said standards, a journal box secured in the straight one of said standards opposite to said handle portion, a crosshead adjustably secured to said rod, a wrist-pin fixed on said crosshead, a short shaft rotatably supported in said journal box and having a crank arm on its inner end that has a crank- I pin, a pitman arranged between said rod and the straight one of said standards and connected to said wrist-pin and to said crank-pin, an operating arm rigid on the outer end of said shaft, and a handleon said operating arm.

In testimony whereof, I afiix myvsignature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN A. WILDE.

Witnesses: s

E. T. SILvIUs, F. M. RoEDER. 

